Good job Swamp. That was not a gut shot. I agree you must of severed the back of the esophagus between the lungs.

Well done.Congrats

Swamp, has any rut activity started where you are? Nothing here but occasional butt sniff. My two biggest bucks haven't been seen for days. Plenty of does on feeder and food plot. Including whitety as I have named it. Im not going to shoot it. Just watch and video tomorrow if I get the chance. The rut seems to be a little late this year. Also, too many acorns still.

Sarge

Was straight guts on arrow perfectly broadside. Completely blew my mind... Was 6 yds with a recurve and saw my arrow slowly slink on in..

Your post makes me feel not so crazy...

Yes...been running hard here. Mature bucks have just started showing back up on cameras on my 400 acres. They were gone for over a week....with does I presume.

Wow! I'd never seen this b4 (mine) and I've killed a bunch of deer.

It's interesting to hear and see that others have had the same experience.

Thanks for posting.

I was gonna say our rut is a few weeks away, but I went and set a climber near some scrapes yesterday evening and it was absolutely crazy. I hadn’t been up the stand long enough to even take my quiver off the bow and hang the bow when a spike, followed by a real nice 10pt who was being followed by a decent 8pt ran a doe by me. A shotgun would’ve been needed to even think of getting a shot.
20min later I watched 2 really decent 8pts chase a doe around from the bottom they came from. And then right near dark a young 8 comes running a doe from the opposite direction and ran her apparently into one of the early 8pts cause he got a rude awakening about hierarchy and then the big 8 gave chase on the doe. I’d only seen a deer get hit by another deer on video…to see it in person is quite eye opening. It’ll make you think twice about walking up on an antlered deer for sure. That younger buck may still be running for all I know. He got hit so hard he had to get punctured.

Good shot!

Only takes one doe in heat to stir things up. I think your peak (when most does are in heat and standing to be bred) is 2nd week of November....correct?

Swamp that doe was still alive 3 hrs later... My exit you could draw up better...

I've killed a big pile of deer and never seen anything like it..

Was a no stopping to search for blood type blood trail also.

Yeah, these bucks are on early estrous does, the majority will be about the second week for the Southern half of the county. The north part of the county is around Thanksgiving. When our bucks would rather kill each other over a doe my son has them on camera acting like buddies, lol.
We had another couple of does killed so we’re at 24 for the year. I think that’ll slack off as folks will start holding out for a buck, then we’ll go back to thinning them. CJ has been trying hard to get a buck but with semi rutting bucks, it’s tough for a kid to get on them that quick, lol. Those Spring and early Summer rains gave us some thick vegetation to deal with.

I should have taken the time to look closely at the path of my arrow that night, but I was tired after skinning and de-boning. The next day when I hauled the carcass back to the property to dump she was a little ripe and I did'nt want to open that abdomen...lol

Congratulations
Nice Deer